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Question Booklet No. : .............................

ENTRANCE TEST-2025
SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

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Total Questions : 60 Question Booklet Series
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1. In Sonnet 66 the poet laments that art has been 6. What is not true of Tolstoy’s short story “ There are
“made tongue-tied by …”: no Guilty People” ?
(A) Poets (A) It examines the complexities of human morality
(B) Painters (B) It strongly advocates a classless society
(C) Lovers (C) It explores the issue of social hierarchy
(D) None of the above (D) It foregrounds human complicity in fostering
2. Which of the following is true of Donne’s “Batter inequality
My Heart”? 7. The narrator in “ The Purloined Letter” :
(A) Is part of Holy Sonnets (A) Remains mostly a passive observer
(B) Makes use of violent verbs (B) Takes center stage
(C) Provides examples of alliteration (C) Is not given a name
(D) All of the above (D) Both (A) and (C)
3. In “Lycidas” there is an allusion to Damoetas. 8. In “ Fear”, the man with the bronzed complexion
Which of the following is true of him? says :
(A) He is a shepherd in Greek mythology
(A) Only the timid can feel fear
(B) He is a soldier in Roman mythology
(B) The boldest of men can feel fear
(C) Virgil mentions him in his pastoral poem
(C) Only women can feel fear
(D) Both (A) and (C)
(D) None of the above
4. “The proper study of mankind is man.” This line
9. Emily Dickinson makes use of the following poetic
occurs in:
devices in “ Hope is the thing…”:
(A) Pope
(A) Extended metaphor
(B) Donne
(B) Alliteration
(C) Shakespeare
(C) Enjambment
(D) Marvell
(D) All of the above
5. O’ Henry, whose real name was William Sydney
10. In Frost’s poem, the woods are :
Porter, was :
(A) lovely, deep and dark
(A) An Austrian writer
(B) An American writer (B) lovely, dark and deep

(C) A British writer (C) lovely, dark, deep

(D) A Polish writer (D) None of the above

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11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in : 16. Which Shakespearean character finds a mention in
(A) 1786 “ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?

(B) 1796 (A) Lazarus

(C) 1876 (B) Hamlet
(D) 1896 (C) Othello

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(B) Mildred (A) A picaresque novel
(B) An epistolary novel
(D) Paddy
(C) A bildungsroman
13. The poem “ London” written by Blake has :
(D) None of the above
(A) Three stanzas
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(A) Birds that he could hunt (A) Its primary mode is spoken
(B) Other old men he met on his travels (B) It is analytic or descriptive
(C) Supernatural beings that lived in nature
(C) It is factual and journalistic
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(D) None of the above (D) None of the above

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21. Repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close 26. In the opening of Untouchable, Bakha is described
together in a sentence or verse is called : as:
(A) Alliteration (A) a young man of seventeen, strong and able-
bodied
(B) Assonance
(B) a young man of eighteen, tall and lanky
(C) Consonance
(C) a young man of seventeen, tall and lanky
(D) Allusion (D) a young man of eighteen, strong and able-
22. Sestina is a/an : bodied
(A) Arabic poetic form 27. In Kamil’s story, Azam Bub leaves the narrator’s
home for the following reason :
(B) French poetic form
(A) He overheard the couple talking about him
(C) Japanese poetic form
disparagingly
(D) None of the above (B) The children told him what their father thought
23. For Aristotle character in drama is : of him

(A) More important than plot (C) The narrator’s wife refused to serve him dinner
(D) None of the above
(B) As important as plot
28. “ This Capital City” deals with :
(C) Second in importance to plot
(A) Displacement
(D) None of the above
(B) Class difference
24. Which of the following is true of a comedy ? (C) Alienation
(A) Its chief object is to amuse (D) All of the above
(B) Its function is corrective 29. The tone in “Let America be America Again”
expresses :
(C) It is primarily concerned with humans as social
beings (A) The speaker’s disillusionment
(B) The speaker’s hope
(D) All of the above
(C) The speaker’s unequivocal pride
25. Frantz Fanon, the author of “The Negro and
(D) Both (A) and (B)
Language” was :
30. When we are alone we are afraid/ love will never
(A) A German psychoanalyst return. This line occurs in :
(B) An Irish social philosopher (A) “A Woman Speaks”
(C) A West Indian psychoanalyst (B) “Marriages are Made”

(D) An African social philosopher (C) “A Litany for Survival”
(D) “ Enterprise”

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31. Who shared the poet’s ‘basement room’ in 37. Girish Karnad’s play Tughlaq is about :
“Background, Casually” ? (A) Feroz Shah Tughlaq
(A) Only Philosophy (B) Muhammad bin Tughlaq
(B) Only Poverty (C) Muhammad Shah
(C) Both Philosophy and Poetry (D) Abu Bakr Shah

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(D) None of the above 39. Who are the “men without skin”?
33. In “ The Sea is History” , the sea is referred to as : (A) Sethe’s dead ancestors
(A) Grey vault (B) Traumatized ex – slaves impervious to pain
(B) Liquid chest (C) White men that haunt Beloved’s thoughts
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(C) Ritual
(D) Priest (D) None of the above

35. “ Self-Portrait” is a poem that foregrounds : 41. The clan leaders of Umuofia :

(A) A disconnection between the inner self and (A) Are seven in number
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(C) Kamau Brathwaite
(C) That she despises her mother tongue
(D) Nissim Ezekiel
(D) None of the above

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43. The Nowhere Man is set in : 48. Emilia in Othello is :
(A) India (A) Iago’s wife
(B) England (B) Cassio’s lover
(C) Sri Lanka (C) Bianca’s sister
(D) None of the above (D) None of the above
44. Whom does the poet call out in this line from “The 49. Who among the following was not among the famous
Vanity of Human Wishes”? Once more _ _ _, arise Elizabethan playwrights ?
on earth, / With cheerful wisdom and instructive (A) Christopher Marlowe
mirth … (B) Oscar Wilde
(A) Bacon (C) Shakespeare
(B) Bodley (D) Ben Jonson
(C) Democritus 50. The subtitle of The Importance of Being Earnest
(D) Galileo is:
45. “ An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard” is (A) A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
written in : (B) A Serious Comedy for Serious People
(A) Iambic pentameter (C) A Comedy for Serious People
(B) Quatrains (D) A Comedy for Ordinary People
(C) Five lined stanzas 51. In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was :
(D) Both (A) and (B) (A) A painter who fell in love with his own portrait
46. The repetition of the line ‘Break, Break, Break’ in (B) A sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had
the poem with the same title is an example : carved
(A) Juxtaposition (C) The god of fire
(B) Refrain (D) The god of thunder
(C) Personification 52. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single
(D) None of the above man in possession of a good fortune, must be …”
47. What happened after the Duke ‘gave commands’ in Complete this opening sentence from Pride and
the poem “ My Last Duchess”? Prejudice .
(A) All smiles stopped (A) in search of a wife
(B) More smiles appeared (B) in want of a wife
(C) All tears stopped (C) in search of an heir
(D) More tears were shed (D) in want of an heir

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(C) Miss Ames (B) glass
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(A) Links Clarissa’s identity with her marital status 59. Habba Khatoon lived in the :
(B) Suggests Clarissa’s limited autonomy (A) Fourteenth century
(C) Both (A) and (B) (B) Fifteenth century
(C) Sixteenth century
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